For more than 10 years, the term "Srebrenica" has been used to denote the slaughter of "innocent Muslims" at the hands of Christians  more specifically, the Bosnian Serb army, alleged to have slaughtered, according to the version currently accepted by most major media, "between 7,000 and 8,000 Muslims" when it captured that small town in eastern Bosnia in mid-July 1995. As the story goes, the Bosnian Serbs captured this "U.N.-protected zone" and proceeded to take away and execute thousands of men, women and children in the space of several days, subsequently burying them in mass graves that are still being dug up almost 12 years later.

Belgrade-based historian and researcher, Milivoje Ivanisevic, who has been documenting Yugoslavian civil war casualties for more than a decade, has recently challenged the claims in a new booklet, "The Srebrenica Identity Card," which documents hundreds of bodies buried at the Srebrenica Memorial that were not killed in July 1995, when the alleged genocide took place, including cases of people who died natural deaths a full 13 years before the event took place.

The newest evidence offered by Ivanisevic indicates a number of those buried at the Srebrenica Memorial Complex not only were not killed in July 1995, but actually died much earlier, even in the early 1980s  more than 10 years before the civil war in Yugoslavia even started.

According to Ivanisevic, as of March 2007, more than 12 years after the event, a total of 2,442 bodies have been buried at the Memorial. Among those, a total of 914, or over 37 percent, were on the voting lists for the 1996 elections in Bosnia  over a year after the alleged "genocide." The voting lists themselves were approved and checked by the Organization for Security and Cooperation in Europe, which supervised the elections.

A second even more significant find involves the fact that "at least 100 people" buried at the Memorial died of natural causes. Ivanisevic claims that the numbers would be even larger if he'd been allowed access to the death books in Srebrenica and the surrounding towns. Nevertheless, several names with dates of birth, death and place of demise are provided: Fetahija (Nazif) Hasanovic, b. 1955  d. Dec.15, 1996, Srebrenica; Sukrija (Amil) Smajlovic, b.1946  d. May 2,1996, Zaluzje; Maho (Suljo) Rizvanovic, b.1953  d. Jan. 3,1993, Glogova; Mefail (meho) Demirovic, b.1970  d. May 10, 1992, Krasanovici; Redzic (Ahmet) Asim, b.1949  d. April 22, 1992, Bratunac.

Thirdly, Ivanisevic charges that several hundred soldiers as well as civilians were transferred to the Srebrenica Memorial from other cemeteries and reburied, with Muslim burial rituals. One of these is the body of Hamed (Hamid) Halilovic (1940-1982), transferred from the nearby cemetery in Kazani, who apparently died a full 13 years before the Srebrenica "genocide." Other bodies transferred from Kazani to the Srebrenica Memorial include those of Osman (Ibro) Halilovic (1912-1989), Nurija (Smajo) Memisevic (1966-1993), Salih (Saban) Alic (1969-1992), Mujo (Hasim) Hadzic (1954-1993), Ferid (Ramo) Mustafic (1975-1993) and Hajrudin (Ismet) Cvrk (1974-1992).

Fourth, using captured records of the Bosnian Muslim Army, Ivanisevic lists more than a dozen names of soldiers whose families were granted housing and social benefits due to families of soldiers killed in action before Nov. 11, 1993, when the documents were captured by Bosnian Serb army forces.

Fifth, on the basis of similarly captured documents, Ivanisevic provides several dozen names of Bosnian Muslim army fighters killed before March 7, 1994.

Ivanisevic goes on to provide names of Bosnian Muslim soldiers buried at the Srebrenica Memorial who were implicated in numerous massacres of Serbian civilians in the vicinity between 1992-1995, in which a total of over 3,000 Serbs were killed. Interestingly, the commander of the Srebrenica Bosnian army forces, Naser Oric, was given a two-year sentence by the International Criminal Tribunal for Yugoslavia, or ICTY, in June 2006 for his participation in these killings, some of which he captured on video and showed to Washington Post reporter John Pomfret, who visited him inside the "U.N. Safe Zone" in 1994.

During the 1990s, the Clinton administration used the "Srebrenica genocide" claim to enter the Bosnian civil war on the side of the Bosnian Muslims and enforce the subsequent Dayton Peace Agreement for Bosnia-Herzegovina in November 1995, with mutual recognition between Yugoslavia (now Serbia, Croatia and Bosnia). More generally, Clinton's State Department bureaucracy used the "Srebrenica genocide"  as it has since been referred to as a result of controversial verdicts pronounced by the International Criminal Tribunal for Yugoslavia in The Hague  to justify its support for Muslim-dominated political movements not just in Bosnia but in Macedonia and Serbia's Kosovo region, which is currently seeking independence. And, since most of Clinton's State Department appointments, headed by Under Secretary of State for Political Affairs Nicholas Burns, have continued running the U.S. Balkan strategy, the policy has remained intact to this day.

Thus, even as the current Kosovo Albanian independence drive is provided heavy U.S., British and German support, the Bosnian Serbs, unhappy at the prospect of being locked inside a Muslim-dominated Bosnia, are being denied independence, with the "Srebrenica genocide" being used as the chief argument  i.e., that wartime gains achieved through "genocide" cannot be sanctioned. Many observers, including a recent G2 Bulletin analysis, link Western support of Balkan Muslims at the expense of Christians as part of a broader policy of appeasing "moderate" Sunni-controlled regimes in the Middle East, as part of an anti-Iranian Shiite coalition.

Among radical Bosnian Muslim elements, the Srebrenica narrative has been used not only to rally support to the general cause of jihad, to arouse Muslim feelings of having been oppressed and persecuted by non-Muslims, but to build what some have called the "first Muslim shrine in Europe," a gathering place for Muslims from the world over with anti-Western, anti-European and anti-Christian grievances. The Memorial Complex in Srebrenica now serves as a place of pilgrimage, where Muslims can see firsthand the results of what they believe is an unprecedented atrocity against their fellow believers.

The entire Srebrenica narrative has been provided key support by Western mainstream media, headed by the New York Times, Washington Post, Los Angeles Times, Wall Street Journal and the mainstream British, German and French media, who have laced their Balkan reporting throughout the years with references to the "Srebrenica genocide," calling it, among other things, the "worst atrocity in Europe since World War II," a "stain on the conscience of the West," etc.

From the very beginning, numerous dissenting voices both in the West and in ex-Yugoslavia have contested both the Western mass media claims and the ICTY Srebrenica-connected verdicts, but have received almost no publicity whatsoever.

In the summer of 2005, on the 10-year anniversary of the event, the "Srebrenica Research Group," composed of mostly American and British media and academic figures, as well as former U.N. civil officials and military observers with ex-Yugoslavia experience, put up a website in which the entire "Srebrenica massacre" account was reconsidered and demystified. Instead of the 7-8,000 figure, U.N. officials and U.S. Congress experts were quoted giving figures of "700-800," "the low hundreds," "about 2,000 Muslims and Serbs total," etc. Henry Wieland, head of the U.N. Human Rights Commission, who spent days interviewing Srebrenica refugees in July 1995, is quoted as saying that he did not find "anyone who'd seen any atrocity committed with their own eyes."

The forensic findings were taken to task as well, with claims that the entire process of excavation and identification of bodies was controlled by an organization founded by the late Bosnian Islamist leader, Alija Izetbegovic. And, a Canadian international law professor deconstructed the Srebrenica-connected verdicts at the ICTY, showing, among other things, that Bosnian Serb Gen. Radoslav Krstic, sentenced by the court to a 46-year term, was, in the court's own verdict, absolved of participation in  or even knowledge of  the alleged massacre, instead being sentenced according to the ICTY's own construction of "command responsibility." The prosecution's star witness, Drazen Erdemovic, a Bosnian Croat who mysteriously appeared in the ranks of the Bosnian Serb army after previously fighting in the Bosnian Muslim army ranks, claimed participation in the execution of 1,200 Srebrenica Muslims, was exempted from cross-examination, deemed by the court itself as "mentally unstable" and, ultimately, given a five-year sentence for his "cooperation." Yet, the mass media, without exception, have ignored the group's findings, even those quoting the very same mass media's own reports from the ground at the time.

The Netherlands Institute for War Documentation issued an extensive report in 2002, "Srebrenica, a 'Safe' Area," detailing, among other things, that Srebrenica, although declared a "U.N. Safe Zone," was in fact never demilitarized, and that several thousand armed Bosnian Muslim troops were stationed in it between 1992-1995, organizing numerous lethal raids against Serbian villages in the vicinity. This claim was additionally corroborated by the U.N. secretary-general's report to the U.N. General Assembly of Nov. 15, 1999.

Ivanisevic's book will soon to be translated into English. It remains to be seen whether the Western corporate mass media will continue ignoring this and other evidence debunking the claim that an anti-Muslim "genocide" took place in Srebrenica in July 1995. Some public figures in the Balkans have called for an international commission on Srebrenica, which would re-examine the evidence and make a new, more balanced and independent assessment of what took place in eastern Bosnia during the last stages of its civil war, in the summer of 1995.

So even an elderly man who died 3 years before the war is posed as a victim of the alleged July 1995 massacre, and his body, like so many others, have been dug up from cemeteries but are staged as Muslim men id'd as victims of the Srebrenica massacre.

They are cheating to arrive at higher numbers yet still don't have 1/3 of the claimed bodies of the much propagandized alleged massacre.

When you do not have an underlying faith foundation and it is perfectly OK to lie, cheat, steal, murder, rape, and pillage for allah, this is the result. It is difficult for we of the Judeo-Christian ethos to understand these pagans, but we must. Their wish is for world domination. We should have had the common sense to realize that something was terribly wrong with attacking and killing the Serbs when they are mostly Orthodox Christians and were our allies in WW II. But our government under the boy Clinton decided to intervene on the side of the muslims. Furthermore, he brought thousands of these muslim pagans to our country to infest our cities.

Cheating or no, they were never going to get more than about 2/3 the alleged number: the ICRC reported *just before* the Serb seizure of Srebrenica that 2500 of the 7500 Muslim fighters holed up in the ‘safe haven’ had left marching north. Those, plus the 900 or so that Ivanisevic found memorialized, but on the voting roles a year later, about account for the 3600 of the supposed victims who showed up on the 1996 voting roles according to another study. Of course, there was a pitched battle fought for the city (odd notion of a ‘safe haven’—normally safe havens under international law are provided to civilians, not armed combattants—but I digress). Obviously the casualty rate among defenders in a fight-to-the-death last stand is going to be rather high, so I seriously doubt there were that many Muslims left to be summarily executed once the Serbs seized the city.

The fact that, even by cheating they haven’t been able to get up to, between
4000 and 5000 bodies only reinforces my assessment that the whole thing has been at minimum an outrageous exaggeration. I would be inclined to believe an estimate of 1200 summary executions, were there something besides the testimony of the Croat turncoat as a basis for that estimate, but not much more.

Of course, it *should* be a point of lively debate whether the summary execution of traitors in time of civil war—to which the Geneva Conventions do *not* apply—really is a human rights violation, much less the basis for a charge of ‘genocide’.

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posted on 05/01/2007 5:49:40 AM PDT
by The_Reader_David
(And when they behead your own people in the wars which are to come, then you will know. . .)

The death toll has been revised downward because they found the Muslims were counting the same people several times and including some of the same people as both civilian deaths and soldier deaths if they died in battle.

Norwegian researchers, hired by the ICTY, found overcounting.

For instance a Muslim who left his home town to join the Bosnian Muslim army and was transferred or lived in different places during the war years, would be counted if he eventually died, as a civilian in each of the places he lived and was registered. So you had some people counted in triplicate or even more.

Earlier today, I ordered America’s armed forces to strike military and security targets in Iraq. They are joined by British forces. Their mission is to attack Iraq’s nuclear, chemical and biological weapons programs and its military capacity to threaten its neighbors.

The hard fact is that so long as Saddam remains in power, he threatens the well-being of his people, the peace of his region, the security of the world.

The best way to end that threat once and for all is with a new Iraqi government — a government ready to live in peace with its neighbors, a government that respects the rights of its people.”

More generally, Clinton’s State Department bureaucracy used the “Srebrenica genocide”  as it has since been referred to as a result of controversial verdicts pronounced by the International Criminal Tribunal for Yugoslavia in The Hague  to justify its support for Muslim-dominated political movements not just in Bosnia but in Macedonia and Serbia’s Kosovo region, which is currently seeking independence. And, since most of Clinton’s State Department appointments, headed by Under Secretary of State for Political Affairs Nicholas Burns, have continued running the U.S. Balkan strategy, the policy has remained intact to this day.

more sobering..... Bush (and us) again being “lead” by the nose by ex-Clinton State and CIA and Pentagon implants.

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posted on 05/01/2007 7:26:10 AM PDT
by Robert A. Cook, PE
(I can only donate monthly, but Hillary's ABBCNNBCBS continue to lie every day!)

Yes: 100,000 victims (implied DEAD) was the most “typical” mainstream media exaggeration of the pre-war propaganda, but (at best) the 100,000 was those displaced by combat. But IMPLIED (and sometimes directly stated!) was 100,000 murdered victims.

Here, that got increased to a quarter million. With even more propaganda from the press - who WANTED that war!

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posted on 05/01/2007 7:29:17 AM PDT
by Robert A. Cook, PE
(I can only donate monthly, but Hillary's ABBCNNBCBS continue to lie every day!)

Bill Clinton Lied us into war in Bosnia, against Christians, to help Muslims take over a country that wasn’t theirs.

The media is silent even though the proof has been available for a long time. We had no business in Bosnia, there was no genocide, it was a civil war, or more accurately, an invasion by a neighboring country that included stirring up locals against the ruling government.

Now, we are talking about stripping a country of part of it’s land and giving it to radical muslim extremists.

"Let us never forget a quarter of a million men, women and children have been shelled, shot and tortured to death. 10 tortured to death, 20 shot, and 249,970 personally heard, or knew someone who had heard, an artillary shell explode and it scared them.

The best way to end that threat once and for all is with a new Iraqi government  a government ready to live in peace with its neighbors, a government that respects the rights of its people.

And now, in 2007, we Republicans have delivered the solution Clinton said was the best way, and the democrats and media attack us for it and call it a failure.

Iraq today as a government respects the rights of it's people, and is ready to live in peace with it's neighbors. And it is a new government, without Saddam or his cronies.

We SUCCEEDED. Unfortunately, there are many who want to defeat Iraq, they have invaded the country and stirred up opposition to the government.

And the democrats think we should surrender to them and go home.

As I said to a "pull-out now" person yesterday. Lets assume (without evidence) that there is an actual civil war in Iraq, and not just a few thousand malcontents willing to kill innocent civilians but NOT to actually fight a war against the military of their country.

There are still two sides to that civil war. One side is a democratically-elected government, a friend and ally of our country, a government committed to peace in the region, to fighting terrorists, to giving it's people peace and prosperity.

The other side is a radical muslim opposition, who hate us, want to side with Iran our enemy, oppose democracy, want to suppress those in their country who disagree with them, will blow up innocent women and children to make their point, who are sponsored by terrorists, who blow up our troops, and are a threat to the region.

Which side SHOULD we be supporting? According to the Democrats, we have no business favoring one side over another in this battle. But it's hard to think of a "civil war" where the right side to support has been clearer.

Here's the researchers' studied estimate based on years of going through and double checking the names and death reports - although not complete at that point, I believe the number is officially still lower than their roof estimate total. The civilian break down is as follows, which is still a large death toll but less than 1/6 the 250,000 Muslim civilians figure bandied about.

The researchers estimate the number of killed civilian Muslims and Croats to be around 38,000, while the number of killed civilian Serbians was about 16,700.

http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/1291965/posts

So the total for BOTH Muslim and Croat civilians is 38,000. Those groups had their own intense war between each other (late 1992 until a U.S. brokered peacedeal ended their fighting in late Feb. 1994) separate from the main war they had against the Serbs - this took place where Serb forces were gone and most, if not all Serb civilians too.

The numbers of Croat and Muslim civilians killed during the Muslim-Croat war within the general Bosnian war is not separated out of the general total. There were also a lot of foreign mercenaries who were going around killing Bosnian civilians of all ethnicities. The foreign mercenaries including many from Germany and Britain (non-Muslims who fought for the Muslim or Croats) in addition to thousands of Muslims from the Middle East, Africa, Europe, etc.

The Mujahadeen were based in Central Bosnia where there were many Croats. A Scottish mercenary, John MacPhee, fighting for the Croats was witness to (and wrote a book on the mayhem these Muslims did on Bosnian Croat civilians, including babies and children.

Good post. Here’s something that most all of America seems to have forgotten. It has been U.S. law since 1998 to overthrow the Hussein regime and to establish a democratic government.

...

The Iraq Liberation Act

October 31, 1998

STATEMENT BY THE PRESIDENT

Today I am signing into law H.R. 4655, the “Iraq Liberation Act of 1998.” This Act makes clear that it is the sense of the Congress that the United States should support those elements of the Iraqi opposition that advocate a very different future for Iraq than the bitter reality of internal repression and external aggression that the current regime in Baghdad now offers.

Let me be clear on what the U.S. objectives are: The United States wants Iraq to rejoin the family of nations as a freedom-loving and law-abiding member. This is in our interest and that of our allies within the region.

The United States favors an Iraq that offers its people freedom at home. I categorically reject arguments that this is unattainable due to Iraq’s history or its ethnic or sectarian make-up. Iraqis deserve and desire freedom like everyone else. The United States looks forward to a democratically supported regime that would permit us to enter into a dialogue leading to the reintegration of Iraq into normal international life.

The United States favors an Iraq that offers its people freedom at home. I categorically reject arguments that this is unattainable due to Iraqs history or its ethnic or sectarian make-up. Iraqis deserve and desire freedom like everyone else. The United States looks forward to a democratically supported regime that would permit us to enter into a dialogue leading to the reintegration of Iraq into normal international life.

And now the democrats argue that Iraq didn't want freedom, that they are incapable of having a democratic government, that it is unattainable because of their sectarian makeup.

Ya know, I showed this liberal woman friend of mine the two things I just showed you and aksed her to comment in email. First she ignored those emails and I kept asking her if she would comment on them. Finally she replies back that Clinton is very “clear” in those messages. I write back and ask her what does that mean and she goes on a rant about Bush lying and that Bush bullied America.

In other words, she went into full moonbat mode and made no sense whatsoever when confronted with facts.

I had a liberal male “friend” I made on the internet based on our love of the Prius automobile and ecological issues. We used to have drag-out e-mail fights over everything, but I respected him because he argued with logic.

We had to stop because his wife wrote me and told me to stop writing to him because I upset him too much and she didn’t “feel” I understood how bad I was for the country.

"We had to stop because his wife wrote me and told me to stop writing to him because I upset him too much and she didnt feel I understood how bad I was for the country."

LOL!! You are bad for the country? LOL!

I just wrote that liberal woman friend of mine and asked why Al Gore lies in his movie that sea levels will rise 20 feet in the 21st century when the new IPCC report says only about 15 inches? I'll get some incoherent reply that I don't understand the "principles" of global warming, or some other nonsense.

This causes about as much surprise as it does concern - Ivanisevic is attempting to do for Srebrenica what David Irving has done for Auschwitz, and like Irving, will find enough empty heads to fill with his garbage to convince himself it’s worth his time.

If 2 million of the Jews killed by the Nazis had been reported by the ICRC as having fled to Sweden, and 2.9 million of the Jews killed by the Nazis had voted in the first election (or ‘election’ in the case of Communist lands) held after the liberation, and the Jews of Europe had fought pitched battles with the Nazis, Holocaust denial, not in the sense of questioning whether the Nazis killed Jews, but in the sense of questioning the reported death toll of 6 million as mass murder, would not be a disreputable enterprise in racist historical revisionism, and some additional scorn quotes would have been appropriate above. None of those circumstances applied to the Shoah.

Scaled down the the purported death-toll of 7500, all of the analogous facts apply to Srebrenica: 2500 of the ‘victims’ had left according to ICRC reports, 3600 of the ‘victims’ voted in the 1996 elections, and there was a pitched battle between the Muslims holed up in Srebrenica and the Serbs.

When accepted history is a lie, historical revisionism is a good thing.

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posted on 05/01/2007 2:12:59 PM PDT
by The_Reader_David
(And when they behead your own people in the wars which are to come, then you will know. . .)

Sorry, but you’re playing fast and loose with the facts. Brunborg et al. found only 9 ‘victims’ on the voter lists for the 1997 and 1998 elections. Examination of the 1997 and 1998 lists cannot possibly debunk the claim that a much larger number of names of the Srebrenica ‘missing’ showed up on the 1996 municipal election lists, which is the only claim which was made.

Those lists were locked away by the OSCE and requests from both the BBC and the Serbs did not result in their being released, nor are they refered to in Brunborg et al.’s report, only the lists for later elections, compiled after the Serb objection to the 1996 lists, were examined.

Your claim is just more of the smoke and mirrors by which Muslim apologists have tried to trump up letting the women and children go, fighting a pitched battle, and, probably, summarily executing fighters who were arguably traitors in the context of a civil war into a charge of genocide.

I note you do not rebut the ICRC’s report of 2500 Muslim fighters leaving the enclave before the battle, this still lowers the possible number of summary executions by 1/3 even without counting the battle deaths in a fight-to-the-death defense.

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posted on 05/01/2007 5:30:53 PM PDT
by The_Reader_David
(And when they behead your own people in the wars which are to come, then you will know. . .)

Well of course, the Red Cross would have kept the names of those found alive on the list, because they're in on the "conspiracy", right?

And the Bosnian Serb Government, who addressed the issue of the missing in their 2004 report, are in on it too - right?

Duh.

I note you do not rebut the ICRCs report of 2500 Muslim fighters leaving the enclave before the battle, this still lowers the possible number of summary executions by 1/3 even without counting the battle deaths in a fight-to-the-death defense.

Logic isn't your strong suit, is it? The fact that members of the 28th Division headed the escaping column is irrelevant to the matter of how many prisoners the Bosnian Serbs executed - it's the execution of prisoners which is the crime, not any combat which may have occurred prior to prisoners being collected, and the overwhelming evidence of those executions is far beyond the abilities of some know nothing revisionist wannabe such as yourself to even *hope* to overcome.

Having read one of your sources and found it did not say what you claimed, unless you provide a link to the Bosnian Serb Government’s report, rather than your own claim to its content, I will not deign to answer.

Mathematics evidently isn’t your long suit: the reports at the time when Srebrenica was surrounded put 7500 Muslim fighters, both men and boys, in the city, the same number cited as casualties of the ‘atrocity, if 2500 left, that leaves 5000, some of whom were battle casualties.

Nor, last I checked is summary execution of traitors a crime, much less an act genocide, however it may be painted by those who want to apply the Geneva Conventions to a civil war. I’m sure when the dhimmis rise up in some Muslim country, and sharia law is applied, you’ll remember that fact of international law, and use it to defend the mass beheadings.

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posted on 05/01/2007 8:56:18 PM PDT
by The_Reader_David
(And when they behead your own people in the wars which are to come, then you will know. . .)

Having read one of your sources and found it did not say what you claimed

Well read this then:

Q. Okay. Let's go to the next challenge. Could you again, I think, just read it and --A. Yes. "On the list of 3.016 missing persons officially recorded in the registers of the International Red Cross, the names of 350 persons whose identity has been established with certainty appear on the electoral list of September 1996."

Page 4075

Q. So they are saying that the voters' registration -- in their comparison of the voters' registration to the ICRC, they come up with 350 matches. Can you explain that?A. Well, as I indicated, there was no voters' register in 1996. The voters' register was this census of 1991. So it is not at all surprising that people who went missing in 1995 were on the lists recorded in 1991. They should be there.

Now be specific - what did you read that did not say what I said it did?

Further, here is the report produced by the RS Government commission charged with reporting on the events around Srebrenica (7/10-7/19, '95), and here is the addendum to the report which discusses the lists of missing, and concludes with the following on page 18:

Based on the comparative process and analyses of the available lists, documents and other sources, the data on missing persons in the event in and around Srebrenica in July 1995 varies from 7,000 to 8,000

Mathematics evidently isnt your long suit: the reports at the time when Srebrenica was surrounded put 7500 Muslim fighters, both men and boys, in the city, the same number cited as casualties of the atrocity, if 2500 left, that leaves 5000, some of whom were battle casualties.

Wrong answer. The issue isn't battle casualties, but the execution of prisoners which better liars/revisionists than yourself have already failed to try and pass off as battle casualties.

Nor, last I checked is summary execution of traitors a crime, much less an act genocide, however it may be painted by those who want to apply the Geneva Conventions to a civil war.

Well since Bosnia-Herzegovina was internationally recognized in April of 1992, the traitors in Bosnia were those rebelling against the Sarajevo government, and you would have been doing Naser Oric a favor with your ignorance-based misanalysis of international law had his trial not already taken place.

Allmost all killed Muslims from Srebrenica were killed while their forces (1 division cca 8,000 men) tried to brake-trough from Srebrenica trough 40 miles of Serb-held territory to Muslim-held territory. map of "Suicide run" from Univerity of Texas: "The above map clearly explains why round 2,000 Srebrenica Muslims lost their lives. The decision that the 28th Muslim Division should refuse to lay down its arms and embark on a break-through along a 100km-long route in the hardest of military operations, for which it was not prepared in view of the prior retreat of command personnel, amounted to a conscious sacrifice of round two thousand Muslim men of military age. The Western allies would do their best to present it as no less than genocide. They would any trick they could think of to boost the number. They will lie that 8,000 Srebrenica Muslims perished and that the Serbs, in cold blood, executed these men."

French recognition of American independence did not magically make the British hanging of Nathan Hale into a war-crime. The Bosnian Serbs were fighting for the integrity of their homeland—Yugoslavia—just as the ‘secessionists’ from Virginia who formed West Virginia, to oppose secession.
From their point of view, the Bosnian secessionists were traitors. Again, I remind you, the Geneva Conventions do not apply to civil wars.

3016 missing persons, and 350 on voting lists, vs. lots more missing and 9 on voting lists for a different election? (I read the same thing you read and cited in your post to the other thread, the Brunborg et al. report that looked at tht 1997 and 1998 lists, and found only 9 of the missing).

The ‘experts’ employed by the Kangaroo Court for the Former Yugoslavia don’t seem to be able to tell a coherent story. Seeing this is the same ‘august’ body whose case against Milosevic had completely collapsed before his death, I’m suprised you have the timerity to cite them as authoritative.

Equating ‘missing persons’ with murdered (or summarily executed, by your leave) is a neat trick. Missing can be murdered, executed, killed in battle, died of natural causes, fled and living overseas under a new identity, moved to the next village after the war and not speaking up, since your propaganda depends on keeping the number of missing, disingenuously declared murdered, as high as possible.

For precisely that reason, battle casualties are an issue: you want to claim missing = murdered, which is not the case, as even one battle casualty among the missing proves.

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posted on 05/02/2007 8:23:38 PM PDT
by The_Reader_David
(And when they behead your own people in the wars which are to come, then you will know. . .)

In the case of armed conflict not of an international character occurring in the territory of one of the High Contracting Parties, each party to the conflict shall be bound to apply, as a minimum, the following provisions:

1. Persons taking no active part in the hostilities, including members of armed forces who have laid down their arms and those placed hors de combat by sickness, wounds, detention, or any other cause, shall in all circumstances be treated humanely, without any adverse distinction founded on race, colour, religion or faith, sex, birth or wealth, or any other similar criteria.

To this end the following acts are and shall remain prohibited at any time and in any place whatsoever with respect to the above-mentioned persons:

( a ) Violence to life and person, in particular murder of all kinds, mutilation, cruel treatment and torture;

( d ) The passing of sentences and the carrying out of executions without previous judgment pronounced by a regularly constituted court affording all the judicial guarantees which are recognized as indispensable by civilized peoples.

And if that, like what transpires at the ICTY, proves too difficult for you to understand, the following Protocol II makes it even simpler:

Article 1.-Material field of application

1. This Protocol, which develops and supplements Article 3 common to the Geneva Conventions of 12 August 1949 without modifying its existing conditions of application, shall apply to all armed conflicts which are not covered by Article 1 of the Protocol Additional to the Geneva Conventions of 12 August 1949, and relating to the Protection of Victims of International Armed Conflicts (Protocol I) and which take place in the territory of a High Contracting Party between its armed forces and dissident armed forces or other organized armed groups which, under responsible command, exercise such control over a part of its territory as to enable them to carry out sustained and concerted military operations and to implement this Protocol.

2. This Protocol shall not apply to situations of internal disturbances and tensions, such as riots, isolated and sporadic acts of violence and other acts of a similar nature, as not being armed conflicts.

In short, you're wrong, and appear to be operating under the mistaken impression that simply because you post something, that it somehow is worthy of consideration and immune from the most basic fact-checking.

Hoppie/Helot-—You are so seriously brainwashed that you really can’t get enough of the BS put out there by roddie and his boy toy Burns all covering up for bureacrazis at dysfunctional State.

The whole thing is a deliberate fabrication - propaganda “big lie” (to quote Goebbels - and a complete coverup of the genocide committed by the muslims there.

In fact the ranking UN officer on the scene at Srebenica has said this:

“Everybody is parroting everybody [about Srebrenica] but nobody shows hard evidence. In the Netherlands people want to prove at all costs that genocide has been committed. I dont believe any of it. The day after the collapse of Srebrenica, July 13, I arrived in Bratunac [alleged massacre site] and stayed there for eight days. I was able to go wherever I wanted to. I was granted all possible assistance; nowhere was I stopped.”

(Captain Schouten, in Bratunac, Het Parool, 27/07/95)

Hoppie/Helot—brainless wonder that you are...is there any hope for you? Or are you condemned to believe big monopolistic media lies for the rest of your life like a schoolboy...

And before the videotape of the Scorpions executing their prisoners surfaced, folks were denying the involvement of the Serbian MUP in the Srebrenica genocide too, weren't they?

Fact of the matter is that Schouten's statement has been overtaken by events and evidence long ago - your posting it as if it had any relevance merely points to the fact that you have made the choice to remain clueless in order to post idiot denials of a well established event.

As for Schouten and others: he was there and he is an eyewitness to the truth...many here are trying to save you by throwing your a rope, but instead you keep on hanging yourself with the lies perpetrated by the mass media and international financial interests.

But your cluelessness matters not: A Sarkozy victoire will go far to dampen any thoughts about the kosovo frankenstein nightmare Clintonistas tried to foster.

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